If you are not familiar with FreeDNS, it is simply a free / shared dns host. Individuals voluntarily host their domains on the FreeDNS servers and allow other users to create dns subdomains with their domain name.

Here are the steps or you can use the following 4peg template to assist you.

Right-Click on the ‘Direct URL’ link next to your new subdomain and select ‘Copy Link Location’

Paste this link into notepad. We will use it later.

Login to your cisco router and get into config mode.

Configure an ‘http get’ based sla monitorNote: Only enter the first part of the url (before the question mark) and do not hit enter. Press ‘ctrl+v’ then enter the second half of the url including the question mark. If you do not use ‘ctrl+v’ before the question mark will be used to display options of the ‘http get’ command.